China’s tech giants promise speculation-free NFTs – TechCrunch
The future of non-fungible tokens is getting more clarity in China as the country’s tech giants come together to formulate standards for the nascent industry.
The China Cultural Industry Association, along with Tencent, Ant Group, Baidu, and others, jointly issued...
Instagram tests ditching video posts in favor of Reels – TechCrunch
Instagram is testing a change that turns video posts into Reels, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The company says the change, which is currently being tested with select users around the world, is part of Instagram’s plan to simplify...
Visby Medical tests positive for a Series E extension at $1B+ valuation – TechCrunch
Medical diagnostics company Visby Medical raised $100 million in a Series E round earlier this year. Today, the company told me it extended that round by an additional $35 million at the same valuation as the rest of the...
Nikola delays shareholder meeting to drum up support to issue more shares – TechCrunch
Troubled electric truck maker Nikola adjourned its annual meeting to July 18, giving the company time to lobby shareholders to pass a money-raising measure to issue more shares of common stock.
Nikola said the proposal is crucial to support the...
Micropyramid lenses triple the light that hits solar panels – TechCrunch
Stacks of teeny lenses that look like inverted pyramids could juice up solar panels, helping them capture more light from any angle on both sunny and overcast days.
Solar panels perform best in direct sunlight, which is why some solar...
OpenSea, an NFT marketplace, revealed email data breach that may have affected 1.8M users...
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Crypto wants its own iPhone – TechCrunch
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Apple’s relative hostility to the desires of crypto developers hasn’t gone unnoticed and as the industry buckles down for a bear market, some of its proponents are pushing forward plans to rebuild the iPhone with their own...
Binance taps TikTok’s mostly silent superstar Khaby Lame to explain how crypto works –...
Khaby Lame is quite literally on top of the world (if TikTok follower counts are the world). After attending his first VidCon and surpassing Charli D’Amelio as the most followed TikToker, the Italian-Senegalese comedian signed on as an ambassador...
What to look for when hiring a growth marketing agency – TechCrunch
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Warehouse Wars – TechCrunch
Welp. Three straight weeks of work travel amid a seemingly endless pandemic finally caught up with me. Forgive me, as I’m writing this under the influence of green tea and antivirals, so thank you in advance to the regularly...